E-scooter

Safety

One thing to note is that the injury rate should change depending on the quality of the infrastructure. If there is a good network of protected bike lanes, then the injury rate may go down a lot.

• Kazemzadeh2023electric reviews other safety studies across the world.
• Rix2021injury argues that scooter-related injury rate is 175 to 200 times higher than statewide or county specific injury rates for motor vehicle travel (180 injuries/million VMT vs. ~1 injuries/MVMT)
• E-scooter injury rates are worse than motorcycles, new study finds
• Fractures, head injuries common in e-scooter collisions, according to UCLA research
• Coelho2021electric